Chinese arts take center stage at summer festival By CHEN NAN | CHINA DAILY | Updated: 2021-06-30 09:38 Share CLOSE Pianist Huang Yameng and her 9-year-old daughter, Liao Mengjia, perform at the Forbidden City Concert Hall on June 18. [Photo provided to China Daily]
Having established itself as one of Beijing s biggest arts festivals for children during the summer vacation since 1995, the annual Gateway to Arts 2021 Summer Festival will take place at the Forbidden City Concert Hall starting from Sunday, and will run through Aug 31.
With 10 mini summer camps teaching children Western classical music, traditional Chinese operas and traditional Chinese musical instruments, as well as 69 live performances and 10 public lectures, the festival will run for 59 days during the summer vacation.
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Conductor Yu Long (center) and musicians of the China Philharmonic Orchestra go through rehearsals earlier this year in Beijing. The orchestra will stage a New Year concert on Wednesday. [Photo by Jiang Dong/China Daily]
Orchestras to ring in new year with rousing renditions of classics and modern pieces, Chen Nan reports.
Under the baton of conductor Yu Long, the China Philharmonic Orchestra will welcome the new year with a concert at Beijing s Poly Theater on Wednesday. They will perform along with musicians from two other Chinese symphony orchestras: the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra and the Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra.